The Soldier’s Friend or Memorials of Brunswick: A Poem (1828)

The midday sun glimmers off the thick coiled razor that sits atop the fence surrounding the perimeter of Central State Penitentiary. As Californiaas toughest prison, itas where twenty-two-year-old convict Stanley Allen Wexel will serve out his life sentence, one agonizing day at a time. Miles away on a Los Angeles law school campus, first-year student Blake Rowley accepts an offer to participate in a pro bono program working with prison inmatesajust the right ahands-ona legal experience he needs to boost his uninspiring resume. But when Blake meets Stanley, his first aclient, a he begins to doubt this young inmateas guilt. When doubt turns to passion and passion becomes obsession, Blake will risk everything to save Stanley from the hell of life in prison. As tensions mount and the stakes get high, Blake will stop at nothing to uncover the truth, the truth that could cost Blake his life.